Support for VMXNET 2 and 3 inside Ubuntu on ESX and ESXi installs with Intel 10 Gigabit 82598 / 82598EB and 82599 Ethernet

I am deploying some test guest OS on my ESX platform and want to use the FULL 10GIG of bandwidth I can support on the NIC. I discovered that the client install ISO doesn't recognize the NIC but that I can configure it post-install!

Right click the guest virtual machine in vSphere Client, and slect GUEST menu and then Install/Upgrade VMware Tools, this will mount the iso to the /dev/cdrom next: